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Ant and Dec’s Limitless Win: How does the show work and is the jackpot really limitless?
Saturday nights have the potential to be life-changing (Picture: ITV)
Ant and Dec’s new ITV show Limitless Win is lighting up out television screens on Saturday nights with its lure of a jackpot potentially worth millions of pounds.
So far an NHS couple have won a whopping half a million pounds, and promptly donated 10% – £50,000 – to charity.
The hosts have also admitted to losing £1.2million when they tried out the show themselves, after ‘a rush of blood to the head’ made them answer too quickly.
Despite that stark warning, viewers have been keen to learn how to apply for the new game show, although the ITV website shows it’s not currently looking for applicants.
We imagine a fair amount of this interest comes from the potentially huge winnings on offer, but how does the show actually work?
How does Ant and Dec’s Limitless win work?
There’s a lot at stake in this show (Picture: ITV)
The format offers contestants an endless (really!) money ladder, which they must climb by answering questions correctly.
However, if they push their luck too far they risk crashing out of the game and losing everything – so no pressure.
The game sees contestants compete in pairs to answer numerical questions and are able to bank the cash with each correct answer.
In order to remain in the game they are not allowed to answer with a number over the correct answer, or run out of lives.
Contestants lose lives if they submit a number lower than the correct answer, with the amount of lives taken off being the difference between their answer and the correct one.
Is the jackpot on Ant and Dec’s Limitless Win actually limitless?
The money ladder keeps going, if contestants can hold their nerve (Picture: ITV)
Yes! The jackpot truly is limitless, in a world first.
If contestants choose to keep playing instead of cashing out, and keep guessing correctly, technically the jackpot could go on forever.
You’d need a serious bit of luck not to make a mistake at any point though.
Explaining some of the key differences in the programme ahead of its debut, Ant noted: ‘What makes [our show] different is, it’s the world’s first limitless jackpot, that’s the selling point for us and that’s what hooked us in, the fact that there’s no top prize.
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‘You could – if you play this game right – win millions upon millions of pounds.’
Dec jumped in: ‘And [you could] create world television firsts with this!’
Ant & Dec’s Limitless Win airs Saturdays from 8.30pm on ITV.
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